Thread: Gas Saving Tips For Feds

Originally Posted by FAB1

Enjoy it-but its poison to a real engine like an LT1.
We will be drilling soon enough. the Green energy is MIA.

Ethanol is really tough on boat motors, lawn tractors, etc. My boat mechanic says its the effect on gaskets (eats them up) not so much the effect on the motors. If you try you can still find no-ethanol gas in our area. He believes its worth the effort.

Originally Posted by James48843

In a 2007 Tahoe, that's right. 20% fewer miles per gallon. That's because a 2007 Tahoe is built and designed with gasoline in mind. It's not optimized for ethanol. 12 MPG? Well, a Tahoe certainly isn't the environmetnally concious's first choice of vehicles there, is it?


Do the same test with a new Turbo Buick Regal. The engine in a turbo Buick Regal is a direct-injected turbo-charged setup, that expereince has shown gets about 5% fewer miles per gallon, not 20% fewer miles per gallon. That's a lot better all the way around.


If the price of ethanol is 15% cheaper, then you'd need a 15% drop in MPG or less in order to make it financially better off out of your pocket.

But there is more at stake than just what is costs out of your pocket.

When you buy gasoline, you are sending your money from your back pocket, into the bank account of the oil companies, and ultimatly into the bank account of Osama bin Laden and his buddies. Or at least a portion of it.

When you buy E85, you are putting most of that money into the pockets of American farmers instead.


Your choice- who do you want your money going to?

Middle-east Shieks?

Or Mid-west farmers?

so u are the liberal type that only reads or hears what u want to, so u can stay with the liberal/communist agenda.
from the link it was a vehicle designed for E85
"Using a flexible-fuel 2007 Chevrolet Tahoe LT"

and it takes plenty of diesel fuel and motor oil to make that corn, so if u don't want your money going to the shieks and oil companies u better stop driving all together. just about all of the clothing on your back and all the plastic u use, like the computer u use everyday is made from oil. so stop living and move back to the 1700 to 1800s to avoid what u propose. Please stop being so clueless.

http://www.zuko.com/Inexplicable/Tho...ng_Ethanol.asp

Need I say more?

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Originally Posted by Valkyrie

so u are the liberal type that only reads or hears what u want to, so u can stay with the liberal/communist agenda.
from the link it was a vehicle designed for E85
"Using a flexible-fuel 2007 Chevrolet Tahoe LT"

and it takes plenty of diesel fuel and motor oil to make that corn, so if u don't want your money going to the shieks and oil companies u better stop driving all together. just about all of the clothing on your back and all the plastic u use, like the computer u use everyday is made from oil. so stop living and move back to the 1700 to 1800s to avoid what u propose. Please stop being so clueless.

http://www.zuko.com/Inexplicable/Tho...ng_Ethanol.asp

I agree...(except for calling him a liberal with a communist agenda.) Everything (it seems) that we use in our everyday lives uses oil somewhere in its manufacture process. This world is totally dependant on oil, and after umpteen decades building our entire way of life/systems around it, the call in the last few years to "ALL OF A SUDDEN" move away from "oil" seems to me to be very illogical and unreasonable call to heed; HOW!?!?, are you gonna undo decades and decades of dependancy on oil in a few years (even 20 years is very short minded) I honestly think we are going to face some very hard days ahead before we could ever move to another "system".....it just AINT THAT EASY, ...as they say.

Originally Posted by Afishegg

I agree...(except for calling him a liberal with a communist agenda.) .

What was it, the "Agenda" part?

Originally Posted by Afishegg

I agree...(except for calling him a liberal with a communist agenda.) Everything (it seems) that we use in our everyday lives uses oil somewhere in its manufacture process. This world is totally dependant on oil, and after umpteen decades building our entire way of life/systems around it, the call in the last few years to "ALL OF A SUDDEN" move away from "oil" seems to me to be very illogical and unreasonable call to heed; HOW!?!?, are you gonna undo decades and decades of dependancy on oil in a few years (even 20 years is very short minded) I honestly think we are going to face some very hard days ahead before we could ever move to another "system".....it just AINT THAT EASY, ...as they say.

That is not what I wrote or wanted to imply, I wrote that he is a liberal type, "Following" the liberal/communist and one can add marxist/socialist agenda. Just another confuse american who has never studied the papers the founding fathers wrote and their own comments.

modified my 4x4 truck so now it gets 22-23 hwy verses epa rated 19 hwy.
commute on my motorcycle 25F plus weather as long as there is no ice/snow or heavy rain, 37-39 avg, 47-50 hwy, second bike a DR200 EPA rated 105 mpg city. All would be 3% better mpg without E10. truck has 22 gal tank, motorcycle has 7 gal tank, Dr200 has 3.4 gal tank. I'm ready for the gas rationing. better mpg to come after I use my ceramic coating on the exhaust pipes.

http://www.gassavers.org/index.php
http://ecomodder.com/
http://www.wisil.recumbents.com/car_...%20pan%20notes:
http://cumminsengines.com/assets/pdf...whitepaper.pdf

I have two big GM 5.7L monster station wagons.

Also two Buick Reattas, smaller, better gas mileage.

I'll keep driving all of them. I'll pay the price. At least at the
prices they are driving for there will be PLENTY of gasoline
for me.

:toung:

Hey, if you want to save gas try what some of them at my workplace do, Carpool. I personally don't participate but I have to say it is funny to watch these guys trying to hook up to get out the door sometimes. We call them "The Car Pool Mafia". They are always trying to maneuver around so as to get as close together as possible. It's quite a comedy, just like a reality tv show.

So much snark...
I love it...

Anyway, here is a real fuel economy and engine performance tip.

• Buy and install a K&N Air Filter.
• Even better, buy and install a K&N Air Intake.

Here is the website...

You will notice an IMMEDIATE improvement in both performance and mpg.

Originally Posted by driz

Hey, if you want to save gas try what some of them at my workplace do, Carpool. I personally don't participate but I have to say it is funny to watch these guys trying to hook up to get out the door sometimes. We call them "The Car Pool Mafia". They are always trying to maneuver around so as to get as close together as possible. It's quite a comedy, just like a reality tv show.

I work 50-60 hours a week, no carpool buddies! I ride my motorcycle and I am happy that I live where I do to make it possible to ride almost 90% of the time.....But for some reason I can't get anybody into my rideshare program coming in @ 6 and leaving @ 6....hmmmm

[QUOTE=Boghie;303333]So much snark...
I love it...

Anyway, here is a real fuel economy and engine performance tip.

• Buy and install a K&N Air Filter.
• Even better, buy and install a K&N Air Intake.

Here is the website...

You will notice an IMMEDIATE improvement in both performance and mpg.[/QUOT



Ah, not quite. I have had a couple of em including now. About all you are going to get is 1 mpg if that and it's on the higher end of that with a super pig and much less if its a small motor rig. Same goes for all that power. If you try hard enough you might just persuade yourself to feel it. Sort of reminds me of that "Smilin Bob little blue pill" Enzite ad I got bombarded with all night long on Sat tv for years. Keep whistlin that little tune in your head and you might believe it eventually yourself and get that twisted little smirk goin like old Smilin Bob. The most cost effective way to get one is wait till your paper one is up for replacement and get one off Fleabay then sell it there again when you trade or scrap your car. You can get used ones on Fleabay too and clean them up with the $20 recharge kit which will last you a decade or more. They are supposed to last a gazillon miles anyways.
If you are going to do anything pump up your tires some and drive it as close to 2000 rpm's as you can manage. That works out to around 50 MPH in most and you are gonna get laughed at. Do that on a freeway and someone might come along and offer to give you a push but here in Rockeaterville at night no one will notice. Shhhhhh, don't tell anyone. In more reasonable terms just cut out one useless trip to the sub shop or Wallyworld to view the Cretins on the 1st of the month ect and you will probably find yourself right back where you were. Also replace those super fat tires on your pick em up truck or sporte ute with thinner ones when they wear out.